Littleton Select Board Opens May Town Meeting Warrant With 30 Proposed Articles

LITTLETON -- February 24, 2025, Littleton Select Board opens Annual Town Meeting warrant and honors Olympic fencing coach. The board voted 5-0 Monday to open the warrant for the May 6, 2025 Annual Town Meeting, setting a March 24 closing deadline, and walked through a preliminary list of 30 articles that includes an operating budget, school building stabilization transfers, and a proposed surplus declaration for Town Hall at 37 Shattuck Street intended to support deeply affordable senior housing development. The board also voted unanimously to approve four permanent conservation restrictions, one for the Hager Homestead at 336 King Street and three for parcels known as "the Point", and appointed Robert Abari to the Economic Development Committee. Director of Elder and Human Services Liz Trudiac reported that the Friends of the Littleton Council on Aging donated $25,000 in lobby naming rights for the new Shattuck Street senior center, pushing the Friends' calendar-year total contributions past $90,000. The board recognized Ralph Biesdorf, a Littleton resident who coached the U.S. women's foil fencing team to a gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics, the first such U.S. team gold since 1904, with Biesdorf telling the board that after Paris, "going home means Littleton, Massachusetts."